Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...

The life of prayer is a process that has great advances and setbacks. There is no monotony when it comes to spending time with God. For those who commit themselves to pray, there is a daily adventure ...

Forty years of studying contemplation has led Fr. Keating to this conclusion: "All of Christianity and especially the institutional aspects and structures of it need to be regularly renewed to ensure ...

ContemplativeBeehive.com or 303-652-3659. Though first practiced by early Christian monks, modern-day Christians aim to integrate their forefathers` silent, contemplative prayer into their daily lives ...

Long ago, Daniel Berrigan told me a tragic story about being invited to speak to a packed church of cloistered nuns somewhere on the East Coast in 1965. They wanted him to read from his latest book of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The mystery of the interior life of God and how to experience even a glimpse of that life through deep, self-forgetful prayer is the subject of a new book by Fr. Donald Haggerty, ...

A contemplative movement of Christian Centering Prayer is quietly (almost secretly) reviving religious life and faith in society. Here in the land of “the spiritual, but not religious,” and growing ...

When the Church approaches contemplative prayer, she is led to give multiple and different definitions in her attempt to explain what it is. The multiple definitions are needed since no one definition ...

Centering prayer is catching on among Protestants in South Korea. "Nearly all Protestant prayer revolves around seeking something from God" says Reverend Lee Min-jae, a Methodist pastor from Eunmyung ...

Over the centuries, contemplative prayer has been closely associated with Catholics: St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Ignatius, the 16th century Spanish nobleman who went on to found ...

First, I fidget. I cross and uncross my legs, fold and unfold my hands, bow and raise my head. I discover muscles I didn’t know I had, muscles that twitch, quiver, itch, and ache. So I waste several ...